Official Punk News

ISANA KAGAMI is back with two brand new shirt designs, exclusive to JPU Records! Celebrating the very best of heavy metal and kawaii culture, the shirt range now includes the beautiful "#5 HEAVY METAL MONONOKE" and the brutal "#4 JROCK BIG BOSS", depicted on the left side of the banner above. The illustrator has worked with many bands from Japan, including t-shirts and merch for BABYMETAL and BAND-MAID.The new designs were originally planned to be revealed at this summer's London Comic Con and Hyper Japan events. However, with COVID messing everything up and us being too excited to keep these...

STILL FIGHT FOR SURVIVE is the first full length album from ROS, a band formed of Japanese punk legends who’ve been creating moshpits and shaping Japanese sub-culture since the 90s. This exclusive overseas edition features two brilliant bonus tracks not found on the original domestic release in Japan, including anthem "GOD OF ROCK" (over 150,000 views on YouTube) originally found on their break out EP, and "GIVE ME THE THING", a B-side from the lead single of STILL FIGHT FOR SURVIVE. ROS features Raimon on vocals (MC from alternative legends smorgas, active since 1997), HIROKI on guitar (guitarist of Dragon...

Shamisen punk rockers ROA get kidnapped in their latest music video "Tatour". The video was shot during their 2018 world tour which saw the band perform at France's Japan Expo Sud, London's Hyper Japan and The Underworld and some club shows in the United States. Filmed in LA by Los Angeles Video Club, the video sees the band get drugged at a party and awake tied-up in an abandoned house in the desert. Shenanigans go down when the boys manage to escape and go wild armed with a machete, an electric saw and a rather large rock. ROA’s unique sound...

Punk trio MUTANT MONSTER will be back in London for CAMDEN ROCKS 2019. The band will be performing on Sunday 2 June, the same day as Ash, Raging Speedhorn and The Wonder Stuff. CAMDEN ROCKS is an independent urban festival showcasing 400 of the best new and established bands, across twenty legendary venues in Camden Town on 1st and 2nd June 2019. MUTANT MONSTER are among the first 220 acts for the event to have been announced. Others include punk-folk singer songwriter Frank Turner, riotous alt-rock act Ash, Essex troubadour RAT BOY, legendary post-punks New Model Army, USA teenage-dirtbags Wheatus,...